Promoting Economic Innovation

Testimonials

As someone quite involved in state issues, I thought long and hard before making an endorsement. I have concluded that Rebekah Warren would be the ideal representative for our Senate district. She has the integrity and expertise to get the right jobs done, and always with grace, competence, and rock-solid experience. She walks the walk.

Rebekah Warren is ideologically driven without being an ideologue - she has one of the most finely-tuned moral compasses in Lansing. And she has a proven ability to compromise without ever compromising our core values. She combines a clear vision of where we need to go with the rare ability to win the necessary buy-in to actually get us there. Quite simply, Rebekah gets things done.

Rebekah has demonstrated a willingness to reach out for support to all members of the Ann Arbor community. Her tenacity, intelligence, and experience will be a great benefit in Lansing. I am confident she will serve our district well.

As a longtime Ann Arbor activist, I have worked with Rebekah. I have seen her inspire and mobilize people around a cause, such as she did with The Great Lakes Compact. She has the leadership skills to activate the Michigan Senate to do the people's work.

If Michigan is to retain its position as one of the great states in the union, we need to protect its globally unique environmental resources, build a truly world-class education system, and make Michigan an island of progressive politics. Accomplishing all this in challenging times will require intelligence, political savvy, and a deeply held set of core principals . . .

Promoting Economic Innovation

Rebekah knows that Michigan faces daunting financial challenges due to an evolving manufacturing sector and changing global economy, but she believes that if we are to compete in the market of the future, we need to see these current struggles as an opportunity to reinvent and transform our state. Throughout her tenure as a legislator, Rebekah has prioritized efforts to cultivate entrepreneurship, diversify our economy, and grow the creative and high-tech industries that will re-establish Michigan as a center of innovation and prosperity. At the same time, she has fought to preserve the Michigan that invests in its citizenry, valuing quality K-12 and higher education and ensuring an effective safety net for our most vulnerable residents during these extraordinarily difficult times. As we work to re-emerge a stronger state, she is the leader who believes we can build a better tomorrow while protecting our quality of life today.

Envision Michigan

Rebekah believes that we can no longer afford to wait to prioritize the funding of policies that both help our citizens today and ensure our fiscal health into the future. As a state legislator, she has worked hard to transition Michigan’s economy while putting people first.

Expanding the Emerging Business Fund, which provides critical assistance to high-tech firms working to turn research conducted at Michigan universities into commercial products.

Increasing the Small Business Growth Fund to give our small and medium-sized firms—the engines of so much of Michigan’s job growth—access to the capital they need to create new business and employment opportunities.

Expanding the Venture Michigan Fund to give technology start-ups in the Technology Tri-Corridor access to the venture capital they need to become successful job producing businesses.

Closing outdated corporate tax loopholes that help a small, elite group of special interests at the expense of individual taxpayers and families.

Implementing fair and progressive tax policies that recognize the shift in our economy and ensure that Michigan’s working families do not unfairly bear the tax burden.

Capitalizing on Michigan’s highly talented workforce and world-class universities to bring new and growing industries here.

Envision Michigan

Rebekah believes that we can no longer afford to wait to prioritize the funding of policies that both help our citizens today and ensure our fiscal health into the future. As a state legislator, she has worked hard to transition Michigan's economy while putting people first. > More